No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

:sg:Well I was going to save this image for a query but I will share it with yous guys for fun. How many naked angels can you fit in to a Whitefriars goblet- and I was not even trying!!Seasons greetings to all on the message board from a sunny New Zealand-Carol

Flying Free there is a small vase on the left hand side just in front of the decanter. It is pink & blue and sort of "Turkish" in decoration. Do you have an attribution for it? It seems very similar to a vase I have. I have seena small ball vase - similar to yours attributed as follows "The Moroccan Tapestry Pattern appears in the 2000 price guide of Antique Trader "American and European Decorative and Art Glass," on page 188, where it is attributed to Thomas Webb. ". I wondered if you had a better attribution.

No I don't at the moment. The Great Glass site had a note on there (if I recall correctly) that they had been thought to be Bohemian in origin, but current thoughts are that they may have been produced in the UK and decorated by French enamellers who had immigrated into the UK during the mid? 1800's and settled in the West Midlands (or something similar to that). They comment that Cyril Manley had thought these were British. I have seen these attributed to Thomas Webb via the same attribution source you quote, but so far everything I've seen on them has been attribution rather than a definitive id. Mine is signed and numbered on the base. They are exquisitely enamelled, very pretty pieces, but I'm no further ahead and I've searched extensively on that one. I'll go see if I can find the Great Glass piece they wrote to quote here for future ref (edited - I've modified my reply above now).m

Logged

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com